Pay Pal Phishing Attempt
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From: PayPal [mailto:service@paypail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 1:48 PM
Subject: Email ID PP19PO991
Warning : Credit Card Expiration Approaching
Your credit card will expire soon.
- You may no longer be able to use PayPal
To avoid any interruption to your service, please update your credit card by following the link below :
paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_login-submit
Thank you for using PayPal!
The PayPal Team
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Please do not reply to this email. This mailbox is not monitored and you will not receive a response. For assistance, log in to your PayPal account and click the Help link located in the top right corner of any PayPal page.
PayPal Email ID PP19PO991
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Investigator Notes:
1. The email was sent without a “To” field so that additional recipients could not be identified.
2. The included link, paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_login-submit, points to a website which is obviously not a Pay Pal website:
ad96e17e3.dsl.de.colt.net/oystercal/includes/.home/cgi-bin/.
3. Pay Pal is the most phished website on the Internet. Extra precaution should always be taken when receiving suspicious emails ragarding Pay Pal accounts.
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